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On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org> wrote:
> We don't need to worry for this vote, but in general relying on voter's
> statement is not a good idea. An authoritative resource to verify the
> binding and non-binding votes is [1].
> [1] - http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#incubator-pmc
I agree, but what a pain in the neck.
Instead of running votes manually on our mailing lists, I wish that we ran
them in a web application.
* Votes could be tied to LDAP in order to differentiate binding from
non-binding.
* Improved mailing list signal-to-noise ratio.
* No more confusion as to what is DISCUSS and what is VOTE on a vote
thread -- all email replies would be discussion.
* Automatic generation of both the email starting the vote and the email
announcing the vote result, reducing administrative overhead. No more
tedious and error-prone manual tallying and validation!
* Vote results could be stored permanently in some kind of database, making
apps like Brane's "Incubator Voting Status" more reliable and easier to
maintain. (<http://people.apache.org/~brane/incubator/votes.html>)
The Incubator runs a lot of votes. If code can be provided, I think it's
reasonable to petition for Infra resources to maintain a voting service.
Thoughts?
Ideally, Apache Steve would power a web voting app. How close is it to
providing the features we would need?
Marvin Humphrey
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